From left: Lumzy Sisters Doris, Chiquita, Brenda and Delores during the Evening of Gospel Choirs performance at Voorhees Chapel, Douglass College, New Brunswick in 2007.

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Professor Angus Kress Gillespie of the American Studies Department of Rutgers University needed a big name in 1982 for the inaugural Evening of Gospel Choirs concert at the university's Voorhees Chapel on Douglass College.

He kept seeing posters and fliers for the Lumzy Sisters of Mississippi around town in New Brunswick. Yep, the Lumzys were and are a very big name in gospel circles, but they weren't exactly in Mississippi anymore.